Assistant Content Producer
Location: GB, LND, London
Salary range: 20000-25000
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Entry level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: E-Learning
Function: Writing/Editing

Company profile:
At FutureLearn, we want to inspire learning for life. We offer a diverse selection of free, high quality online courses from some of the world’s leading universities and other outstanding cultural institutions.Our aim is to connect learners from all over the globe with high quality educators, and with each other. We believe learning should be an enjoyable, social experience, with plenty of opportunities to discuss what you’ve studied, in order to make fresh discoveries and form new ideas.FutureLearn is being built by experienced educators, disruptive thinkers, entertainment experts and geeks.  Our team combines years of experience building great online and mobile experiences for consumers globally.We are a private company wholly owned by the Open University, with the benefit of over 40 years of their experience in distance learning and online education. Our partners include over 20 of the best UK and international universities, as well as institutions with a huge archive of cultural and educational material, including the British Council, the British Library, and the British Museum.We are growing fast. We need people who believe that the opportunities of a great education should be open to everyone. We need people who want to be part of the challenge to break down barriers and inspire millions of people to continue their learning journey throughout their lives. And we want people interested in working for an innovative web company in a fast-moving sector.  Bring your skills, pioneering spirit and collaborative instincts, join our team and be at the forefront of this amazing adventure.

Job description:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A 3 MONTH CONTRACT INITIALLYDo you dream of topping the BuzzFeed Community Leaderboard or creating a YouTube hit? Do you know your Reddit from your reblog?  If so, FutureLearn needs you.We are looking for an Assistant Content Producer with great research skills who can get to know our courses inside out, identify the materials in them most suitable for sharing and turn it into content that will spread on the social web. The role sits between the Content and Marketing teams, working closely with our Social Lead and our Community Manager.The ideal candidate will be a creative individual with a keen eye for detail and enthusiasm for authoring fun, surprising and stimulating content for the web in a variety of different formats, for example: animated GIFs, quizzes, listicles (and old-fashioned blog posts), video clips, audio clips and podcasts, and infographics. Don’t worry, you’re not expected to be an expert at all of those, but we are looking for someone who knows their way around a video editing tool like Final Cut.You should also be familiar with the best ways to format this content for other services, including:AudiobooBuzzFeedFacebookInstagramPinterestRedditSoundcloudTumblrTwitterVineYouTubeAgain, you don’t have to have mastered all of these - but it will help if you have mastered one or two. And if you have achieved viral success yourself, even better!Responsibilities‘Mining’ current and upcoming FutureLearn courses to identify potential social contentChecking rights where applicableRepurposing and authoring content for social platformsFeeding in to inspiration, advice and guidelines for partners to produce their own social content 

Requirements:
Intermediate video editing skills (e.g. familiarity with Final Cut Pro and After Effects)Basic image editing skillsKeen editorial instinctsPassion for learning and communicating about new subject areasUnderstanding and enthusiasm for the social web and net cultureKeen eye for detail and writing for the webGood research skills.

Benefits:
We're constantly looking to add to the range of benefits that we offer staff at FutureLearn:Great annual leave allowanceFlexible working allowedPaid time off allowed for charity workPaid for work related training &amp; developmentInterest free season ticket loansChildcare VouchersCycle to Work scheme